Rosy Cave, Director of Programmes, discusses working on the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office-supported project that supports new and emerging women activists in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The project is aiming to strengthen their public voice through demand-led capacity building, networking, and advocacy.

Following a number of high-profile terror attacks, Lola Aliaga and Kloe Tricot O'Farrell urge international actors to focus their efforts on addressing exclusive and abusive governance, corruption and marginalisation in order to support a peaceful and sustainable democratic transition in Tunisia.

In our latest peace and justice blog, policing experts Gary White and Graham Mathias explore the links between policing, peace and justice, highlighting the importance of accountability structures and processes at all levels to enable and support a police culture that contributes to broader peace and justice.

On paper, the Egyptian government is making positive moves to address violence against women, yet adopting strategies which put women’s needs and concerns at the centre of policing will be the key to real change say Lola Aliaga and Leonie Northedge.

In November 2014, three young social media activists were beheaded by a militant group in Derna, a port city in eastern Libya. This brutal act marks the latest in a bout of targeted killings of human rights and youth activists, say Leonie Northedge and Kate Nevens, and threatens to extinguish the country’s nascent civil society movement, and with it, Libya’s hopes for an inclusive political process.